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Deep learning has significantly advanced computer vision and natural language processing. While there have been some successes in robotics using deep learning, it has not been widely adopted. In this paper, we present a novel robotic grasp…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Sulabh Kumra , Christopher Kanan

Grasping objects is one of the most important abilities that a robot needs to master in order to interact with its environment. Current state-of-the-art methods rely on deep neural networks trained to jointly predict a graspability score…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Amaury Depierre , Emmanuel Dellandréa , Liming Chen

Detection, segmentation and tracking of fruits and vegetables are three fundamental tasks for precision agriculture, enabling robotic harvesting and yield estimation applications. However, modern algorithms are data hungry and it is not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Thomas A. Ciarfuglia , Ionut M. Motoi , Leonardo Saraceni , Mulham Fawakherji , Alberto Sanfeliu , Daniele Nardi

Task-oriented dexterous grasping holds broad application prospects in robotic manipulation and human-object interaction. However, most existing methods still struggle to generalize across diverse objects and task instructions, as they…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Juntao Jian , Yi-Lin Wei , Chengjie Mou , Yuhao Lin , Xing Zhu , Yujun Shen , Wei-Shi Zheng , Ruizhen Hu

Mobile grasping enhances manipulation efficiency by utilizing robots' mobility. This study aims to enable a commercial off-the-shelf robot for mobile grasping, requiring precise timing and pose adjustments. Self-supervised learning can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Takuya Kiyokawa , Eiki Nagata , Yoshihisa Tsurumine , Yuhwan Kwon , Takamitsu Matsubara

Robots benefit from being able to classify objects they interact with or manipulate based on their material properties. This capability ensures fine manipulation of complex objects through proper grasp pose and force selection. Prior work…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Nathaniel Hanson , Tarik Kelestemur , Deniz Erdogmus , Taskin Padir

Precise manipulation that is generalizable across scenes and objects remains a persistent challenge in robotics. Current approaches for this task heavily depend on having a significant number of training instances to handle objects with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Nikolaos Tsagkas , Jack Rome , Subramanian Ramamoorthy , Oisin Mac Aodha , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu

This paper presents a deep learning framework designed to enhance the grasping capabilities of quadrupeds equipped with arms, with a focus on improving precision and adaptability. Our approach centers on a sim-to-real methodology that…

Language-driven grasp detection has the potential to revolutionize human-robot interaction by allowing robots to understand and execute grasping tasks based on natural language commands. However, existing approaches face two key challenges.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Quang Nguyen , Tri Le , Huy Nguyen , Thieu Vo , Tung D. Ta , Baoru Huang , Minh N. Vu , Anh Nguyen

Objects grasping, also known as the bin-picking, is one of the most common tasks faced by industrial robots. While much work has been done in related topics, grasping randomly piled objects still remains a challenge because much of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Jiaxin Guo , Lian Fu , Mingkai Jia , Kaijun Wang , Shan Liu

Robotic manipulation has made significant advancements, with systems demonstrating high precision and repeatability. However, this remarkable precision often fails to translate into efficient manipulation of thin deformable objects. Current…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Chao Zhao , Chunli Jiang , Lifan Luo , Shuai Yuan , Qifeng Chen , Hongyu Yu

Grasping is an essential capability for most robots in practical applications. Soft robotic grippers are considered as a critical part of robotic grasping and have attracted considerable attention in terms of the advantages of the high…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Huixu Dong , Chao-Yu Chen , Chen Qiu , Chen-Hua Yeow , Haoyong Yu

This paper presents a novel regrasp control policy that makes use of tactile sensing to plan local grasp adjustments. Our approach determines regrasp actions by virtually searching for local transformations of tactile measurements that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Francois R. Hogan , Maria Bauza , Oleguer Canal , Elliott Donlon , Alberto Rodriguez

Many robotic tasks require grasping objects at specific object parts instead of arbitrarily, a crucial capability for interactions beyond simple pick-and-place, such as human-robot interaction, handovers, or tool use. Prior work has focused…

Object recognition and object pose estimation in robotic grasping continue to be significant challenges, since building a labelled dataset can be time consuming and financially costly in terms of data collection and annotation. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Dongmyoung Lee , Wei Chen , Nicolas Rojas

Some of the threats in the dynamic environment include the unpredictability of the motion of objects and interferences to the robotic grasp. In such conditions the traditional supervised and reinforcement learning approaches are ill suited…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Ankit Shaw

Manipulation in cluttered environments like homes requires stable grasps, precise placement and robustness against external contact. We present the Soft-Bubble gripper system with a highly compliant gripping surface and dense-geometry…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Naveen Kuppuswamy , Alex Alspach , Avinash Uttamchandani , Sam Creasey , Takuya Ikeda , Russ Tedrake

While grasp detection is an important part of any robotic manipulation pipeline, reliable and accurate grasp detection in $SE(3)$ remains a research challenge. Many robotics applications in unstructured environments such as the home or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Boce Hu , Xupeng Zhu , Dian Wang , Zihao Dong , Haojie Huang , Chenghao Wang , Robin Walters , Robert Platt

We consider the task of semantic robotic grasping, in which a robot picks up an object of a user-specified class using only monocular images. Inspired by the two-stream hypothesis of visual reasoning, we present a semantic grasping…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Eric Jang , Sudheendra Vijayanarasimhan , Peter Pastor , Julian Ibarz , Sergey Levine

We address the problem of robotic grasping of known and unknown objects using implicit behavior cloning. We train a grasp evaluation model from a small number of demonstrations that outputs higher values for grasp candidates that are more…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Gergely Sóti , Xi Huang , Christian Wurll , Björn Hein